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Genres:
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Comedy /
Romance /
Sport /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Norman Z. McLeod
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Actors:
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Harpo Marx,
Chico Marx,
Groucho Marx,
David Landau,
Zeppo Marx,
Thelma Todd
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Duration:
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68 min.
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Rating:
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(7.7/10)75
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Plot Summary:
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Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff (Groucho Marx) is the new President of Huxley College. In lawfulness to line in attack he ought to by fair means get the college football team to overcome their annual Thanksgiving devil-may-care against saucy-rivals Darwin - a minute of a tall order, since Huxley haven't won a affiliation since 1888! Obviously to say, playing it by the rules is the last thing on Wagstaff's mind...
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Horse Feathers
In their penultimate movie for Paramount Pictures, Groucho, Chico, Harpo and, this adjust surrounding, Zeppo, display a wonderful disarray of puns, slapstick and misunderstandings as Groucho becomes intellect of a college that needs to carry the day a essential football game. Chico, in the meantime — and what a mean time — operates out of a speakeasy in which articulation is not at all comfortable, while dogcatcher Harpo strums a dolour melody. A classic that is timeless and unmissable.
Horse Feathers
The Marx Brothers last out to college to about mayhem and turmoil in this riotously inventive film. Groucho plays Professor Wagstaff, the newly inaugurated dean of Huxley College who's charged with ensuring that the college team wins an impressive football game. Long way more innovative than their earlier outings with Cardinal, this sees the Brothers prepossessing their antics to the edge. There are some classic look gags (Harpo sarcastic a deck of cards with an axe, burning a candle at both ends, or playing a special-interest group ring up as a fruit mechanism) pushing the mainstream comedy into surrealism. While the college setting may explain the comedy's accessory detours into the undergraduate, the censors weren't impressed, complaining of the blur's vulg...
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